ABSTRACT
The end of the Cold War more than a decade ago created a world in which the
relative stability between the two superpowers has disappeared. During the Cold
War, a country’s every action was conducted in the light of the adversary relationship
between the United States and the Soviet Union. The cataclysmic changes that took
place in Central and Eastern Europe inevitably changed the face of politics in Europe
and in the Western world as a whole. The civil war in Yugoslavia was, and continues
to be, the first case of ethnic conflict in Europe in the post-Cold War order.
